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A Reading List for Mother’s Day
There is no grand unified theory of motherhood. Within every paradigm, mothering may vary a million times over.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Current Events, Media, Unapologetic Women
We’re Going Through Hell, and Men Need to Join Us There
The momentum is happening and it’s exhausting for women.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Cultural Revolution of Anthony Bourdain
How the chaotic ’70s shaped the food writer’s literary trajectory.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
A ‘Constellation of Meaning’: The Rumpus Interviews George Saunders
In addition to offering plenty of great advice for aspiring writers, George Saunders reflects on the creative process for his new novel, the interviews, notes, and scenes that once distilled become his nonfiction work, and on bold compassion as the right course of resistance under a Trump presidency.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story, Writing
Youth From Every Quarter
A teacher at an elite boarding school confronts her own confused leap up the ladder of class privilege.
Posted inBlog Post, Fiction
The Notebooks of Harriet The Spy
Black Cardigan is a great newsletter by writer-editor Carrie Frye, who shares dispatches from her reading life. We’re thrilled to share some of them on Longreads. Go here to sign up for her latest updates. *** A few months ago, my friend Maud was in town from New York, and one afternoon I met her and her stepdaughter at a […]
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story
‘My Model for Writing Fiction Is to Replicate the Feeling of a Dream’
An interview with graphic novelist Daniel Clowes about his new book, ‘Patience,’ and several decades of comics craft.
Posted inEditor's Pick
‘My Model for Writing Fiction Is to Replicate the Feeling of a Dream’
An interview with graphic novelist Daniel Clowes about his new book, Patience, and several decades of comics craft.
Posted inNonfiction, Profiles & Interviews
‘My Model for Writing Fiction Is to Replicate the Feeling of a Dream’
An interview with graphic novelist Daniel Clowes about his new book, ‘Patience,’ and several decades of comics craft.
